Sponsored by our community partners Pain Free Life Centers Teens share their stories of dealing with mental health challenges. Battling With Your Brain My brain is a bully. You are ugly. You suck...

5K planned to help end teen substance abuse. Runners and walkers are invited to “Spring Into Action” in downtown Franklin May 19 at a 5K to help end teen substance abuse one step at a time.Led ...

Community forum to bring more understanding.For people with bipolar disorder, the world can alternate between being a dark, depressed place, and one of infinite possibilities and manic energy. T...

Five Oakland County teens, members of UMatter, a Friendship Circle-based program focused on teen mental health, got up in front of a crowd and shared their stories in a program called “One Thing I...

Overuse can make teens more prone to anxiety and depression. Like many of her peers, 17-year-old Julie Abramson is rarely without her phone.“I try not to look during class, but sometimes I do,”...

Recently updated book attempts to break the cycle of teen suicide.Jane Mersky Leder first wrote Dead Serious in 1987, one of the first books written exclusively for young adults addressing teen ...

Saving lives, one click at a time. When someone asks how you’re doing, it is not always easy to respond with a truthful answer. Replying “I’m not well” or “I’m feeling depressed” can be challenging...

Three essays by local Jewish teens dealing with mental illness. ‘Everything Was Falling Apart’ I came home from school that day extremely overwhelmed. I was constantly worrying about everything un...

Temple Israel presents the Alicia Joy Techner Memorial Parenting Conference. The opioid epidemic affecting the entire Metro Detroit community will be the subject of the annual Alicia Joy Techner Me...

Alan Bishop, owner of Mr. Alan’s Shoes, has struggled with addiction throughout his life. Along the way, he met the love of his life, got married, had kids and built a business. During it all, he ...

Lisa Kaplan is program coordinator for community education at Maplegrove Center, which provides inpatient and intensive outpatient addiction treatment for adults and intensive outpatient programs ...